Healthy Weight Loss

Would you like to lose weight in a healthy way?

It is such a good feeling when you achieve healthy weight loss but how often does dieting really work? Let’s face it, if there was an ideal diet that really worked long term, all the slimming magazines and dieting clubs would go out of business!

Have you ever noticed how much you think about food when you are dieting? Chocolate? Chips? Pies? Cakes? Pizza? Do you dream about food when you diet? Many do!

Dieting can make you lose weight, that is not to be denied but in the initial stages it is water, then muscle and eventually the fat. The body thinks that it is in a famine state when you diet so it will conserve all the energy it can so inevitably fat stays put the longest. And to further sustain your existence – your body still thinks you are starving – your metabolic rate will slow down so you burn off less calories.

Permanent weight loss is very difficult with dieting. How many really want to eat high fat content and no carbs, or lettuce leaves and carrot sticks the rest of their lives? How isolated do you feel when your family or friends tuck in to a meal that you can only dream of?

Hypnotherapy allows you to lose weight gradually but permanently. It does not mean faddy expensive diet plans. It encourages healthy weight loss and increased motivation to exercise. And you don’t spend anytime obsessing about food like when on a diet!

On average the minimum weight loss is two pounds a week right through to your optimum weight goal. You feel more confident, more relaxed and you get slimmer at the same time- magic!

So what have you got to lose?

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Diana offers support with confidential questionnaires in order to tailor the treatment to the individual and many therapeutic techniques including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy. She is also a qualified health and fitness advisor and can assist you in promoting a healthier lifestyle, both physically and mentally.

Yes, you CAN think yourself thinner: The mind exercises that can help you stay slim

By Louise Atkinson

Every year we spend millions on diets and gym membership, but obesity specialists increasingly believe the problem doesn’t lie in what we eat or how much exercise we take, but how we think.

‘There is a non-stop communication between your mind and body, but the mind is the most important because it drives your behaviour,’ says nutrition and exercise specialist Janet Thomson, author of Think More, Eat Less.

She is convinced we become overweight as a result of confused messages from the brain sabotaging our attempts to slim.

Exercise specialist Janet Thomson is convinced we become overweight as a result of confused messages from the brain sabotaging our attempts to slim

So, if we have been told we are ‘well-built’ or ‘chubby’ or that ‘dieting is a waste of time’, the messages can stick. Without even realising, our emotional link with food can become toxic and we will no longer eat only when hungry and stop when full.

However, she maintains this can be changed and has devised a programme of mind exercises that she believes can boost our chances of getting, and staying, slim.

THINK about how you will look and feel a month after you have achieved your weight- loss goal — slim and healthy. Now, visualise yourself three months after that and six months later. Commit to spending one minute just before you go to sleep each night and one minute when you wake each morning (while you are in a sleepy, trance-like state) visualising yourself like this. Creating powerful positive emotions helps generate faith in your ability to succeed. WRITE down exactly what you want to achieve — to be comfortable in size 12 jeans? To run a marathon? — and what you are prepared to do to get there — ‘I will eat less’ or ‘I will stick to a training regime’. Read this mission statement out loud twice a day. IDENTIFY the thoughts and behaviour that may have kept you from achieving your goals in the past. Make a list of all the things that could have been making you fat (too many takeaways, too much wine), then write a list of alternative behaviours that you intend to do instead (planning meals, drinking alcohol only at weekends). KEEP a food diary: write down everything that passes your lips. Studies show that even if you don’t consciously restrict your food intake, a diary makes you more conscious of what you eat. Being aware is a step forward. SPEND time with like-minded people who have already achieved or have similar goals. Who you spend time with directly affects your attitude because your unconscious mind will be continually processing their shared experiences as well as your own. FOLLOW two simple eating rules: never use food as a reward or treat — eat only because your body needs fuel, then give it the best quality fuel possible. Never ban yourself from eating something. This will only make you want it more.